On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:02:07 +0900, dame_zumari@yahoo.com ( Louise
Bremner) belched the alphabet and kept on going with:

>Michael Cash <mikecash@sunfield.ne.jp> wrote:
>
>> >> What I understand from your other post, you and your wife are a
>> >> gaijin-gaijin couple. So I'm not in position to tell you. But gaijin I have
>> >> met in Japan tend to have homesick in same intervals. Such as 6 months, a
>> >> year, than either once in every year or it keeps doubling. It's kinda like
>> >> spouse visa renewal periods (6 months, 6 months, 1 year, 3 years...).
>> >
>> >Ah well, I never was regular in my cycles.
>> 
>> How about your wife? 
>
>You leave my wife out of this....
>
>Inskidentally, has anyone else found that homesickness kicks in at
>specific times? I'd always assumed from observation of myself and others
>that it attacks at random, with apparently random triggers.


I've never been homesick. I sometimes am overcome with an urge to be
somewhere other than where I am, but not necessarily where I came
from.

I used to get this urge when I would go to the docks and see a ship
going somewhere. I'd want to leave the keys in the ignition (or toss
them in the harbor, either way was fine), hop the ship, and go
wherever they were headed. Now that I go to the docks six days a week
those urges don't occur so often.